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Primitive man (n.) ceases ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to be a riddle as soon as we get to know our own presuppositions.

Primitive man (n.) emerges ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠from the darkness within us to show how and where we deviated from the basic pattern and crippled ourselves psychically.

The Primitive man (n.) stood ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠alone with a poor unarmed body on the sunlit earth, belonging to what was near and enemy to the far-off, living by what lay at hand and receiving by grace what lay far-off.

The Primitive man (n.) whom ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠our collective consciousness rejects as hideous is the very bearer of the beauty we vainly seek elsewhere — and whose reflected splendour we mistake for the glory of the Greeks.

The Primitive man (n.) we ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠carry is the shadow of present consciousness, rooted in the animal man we long ago forgot; analysis was surprised to find so much archaic and instinctual darkness in the unconscious of modern man.